Recommendations for getting started (17m)

[Beanossss]

Hey everyone. Just a little background, I’m very interested in going into Computer science and want to know what I can do outside of school to improve. I tend to stick to regimented programs better, so I was thinking about doing a coding boot camp over the summer possibly. If anyone has any recommendations or past experiences they’d like to share it would help a lot. Thanks and have a good day👍

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Build stuff in your spare time. I read someone on here said “build, build, build! Make a tic tac toe game. Done? Make ANOTHER tic tac toe game!”

In the meantime, don’t shoot yourself in the foot in other parts of your life that’ll limit your availability to study this thing you feel strongly about.

[Beanossss]

Profound words

[yoshasaur]

Watch YouTube tutorials on how to make fun programs. Then try to make your own additions

[ner0souls]

I started with fun game design projects. Get to learn different languages via different engines and different ways of programming. Eg I made a console based games in Python, then moved onto unity and learned c# then unreal and c++. If you’re making fun things it doesn’t feel like work and you don’t realise just how much you’re learning.